If we were to compare the amount of work that a maintenance technician today is required to do at an apartment community, and compare that to 5 years ago; what would the comparison look like?
The most common question I’m asked by community managers is “How long should it take my technician to do <insert task here>.” My scripted answer is not to give an answer. My answer instead is to ask...

Before beginning my career in residential property management (RPM), I worked in retail while completing my degree. Working in retail gave me experience and a strong appreciation for customer service and sales, and an internship in commercial real estate gave me insight into the RPM industry. So with graduation approaching, I found the Manager in Training (MIT) program at Weidner Apartment Homes...

Recent reporting on Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s taxes has spilled over into broader coverage of specific incentives within our federal tax code that are perceived to benefit only the real estate industry. Many of these stories paint an incomplete picture of both the economics of real estate and what segments of our economy, in addition to real estate, use these tax incentives. They...

Apartment Industry Advocates,Last month the Obama Administration weighed in on one of the seminal issues impacting local communities and one with which our industry finds itself struggling again – housing affordability. What might surprise you is that the message from the White House was not directed at property owners. The Housing Development Toolkit opens with this:Over the past three decades,...